English Explanatory Dictionary

frame up

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To erect the initial walls and roof of (a new building).
  2. To arrange fraudulent evidence to falsely implicate (a person) of a crime.
  3. To prepare a shot by deciding what to include and exclude, what to use as background, etc.

Word forms

frame up frames up framing up framed up

Synonyms

frame out frame put up set up

Derived words

frame-up frameup
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